Didn't the initial Roadster prototype/demo units use laptop batteries built into the bodywork?

You forgot Gen Z thing #3: literally the worst slang ever

As long as you don’t drink anything with ice

Short version, yes. Though there are a few extra impediments. Elements too heavy to fuse at the plasma temperatures shut down the reaction over time. Think of it like a fire in an enclosed space burning up all of the oxygen.

No. In a nuclear reaction, *mass* might change, but *matter*, AKA the number of protons, neutrons, electrons (and their corresponding antiparticles), stays the same.

The sun doesn’t so much “store” energy as much as it is “Far too fucking big for almost all of that energy to leave”.

Alternately, they could have sold some Ariana Grande dolls

Those might be valid points....

And didn’t Tesla take over NUMMI, where Toyota used to manufacture cars?!

BYD is in more markets than just China, just as Ford is in more markets than the US.

Nah, fuck that. This is entirely Toyota’s fault.

the tech bro pipe dream of passive income from using your car as a robotaxi

Firstly, I doubt that you would want to move cargo on the Shinkansen line. Cargo trains weigh MUCH more than passenger trains, which means that it would take much more energy to reach bullet train speeds. And we haven’t even talked about slowing down a cargo train going that fast! Or the wear on the rails.

I know we all talk about how physical buttons and knobs are better than touchscreens, but there are ways to seriously fuck up those as well.

This is certainly great news for British medical examiners who work for the DOD

Hawkeye : did you take his pulse?

One thing to keep in mind is that large corporations patent absurd ideas not because they want to bring them to market, but because they want to prevent others from working on them

I don’t do Enterprise. They screwed me on a rental by giving me a beat-up car, got full assurances from multiple staff members that all of damages were noted as pre-existing, and I STILL got charged.

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